Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists - Vol. 2

was born at the Hague, in 1653, and learned to paint of
his father, with whom he came young into England. Here
he was placed with one La Zoon, a portrait-painter, and
then with Flesshier, but owed his chief improvement to his
own application. He lived several years in Yorkshire ; and
when he came to London again, painted draperies for Sir
Godfrey Kneller, in which branch he was eminent; but his
greatest excellence was in imitating other masters, and those

considerable. My father had a picture by him that easily
passed for Bassan's. He painted history, portraits, conversations, both in large and small. Several prints were
made from his works, and several plates he etched and
scraped himself. A book of fencing, the cries of London,
and the procession at the coronation of William and Mary,
were designed by him. He died of a consumption, March
11th, 1702. His son, Captain Laroon, who had a genius
both for painting and music, had his father's picture painted
by himself. 1____________________

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